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NBC Sports Group and Fathom Events today announced a deal for "movie theaters around the U.S." to show live EPL games on Saturday mornings. The simulcasts will start with the opening of the EPL season on Aug. 16 (AP, 7/23).

The Pac-12 today announced a three-year partnership with Chevron to highlight student-athletes that are majoring in science, technology, engineering and math. Per the deal, Chevron will become a sponsor of the Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament (Pac-12).

Sportsman Channel today announced a carriage agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (Sportsman Channel).

The National Football Foundation today announced that it will unveil the College HOF class each year during a press conference the Friday before the College Football Playoff National Championship. The first announcement will take place on Jan. 9 (NFF).

MetLife Stadium was recently presented the ’14 Facility of Merit for Safety and Security Award by the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (MetLife Stadium).

SI features Rory McIlroy on this week’s cover: “Masters Preview 2015 – Why Wait?” Saints QB Drew Brees appears on a regional cover (THE DAILY).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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